The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-11-17

The deaths Of ten persons by poison
placed in food at party given by family
named King, in Delhi, La, were reported
on the 9th. There was trouble in the party
and Mrs King was charged with poisoning
the food
A CoLoRED crook and desperate named
George Grant was shot by an officer at
Kansas City on the 9TH falling dead near
the spot where, five years ago, he killed
Policeman Jones' For the latter crime an
innocent negro was lynched by q mob.
The iron industry of Northern Michigan
had. it was reported on the OH, been almost
ruined on account Of the scarcity of char
coal
AN incendiary fire on the 9th destroyed
five of the largest business houses in Mur-
freesboro. Tenn.
In Grant County, Ind, two-thirds Of the
wells were dry on the 9th The water fam
inc was causing great suffering.
MATAMoKAs tTex.) advices of the 9th say
that nine Of the bandits captured by the
military up the river had been executed
The arrest of Cashier c c. Crecilius, of
the suspended Fifth National Bank OF St
Louis, was made on the Oh on charges Of
fraud and forgery, amounting to over
500, 600 The collapse of the bank was
due to his peculations
AT Cimarron. Kan. seven business places
were burned on the 9th.
GOVERNOR OGIEsBY, on the afternoon of
the 1Oti, made public his decision in the
case OF the Chicago Anarchists, which COM
mutes the sentences Of Samuel Fielden and
Michael Schwab to imprisonment for life,
and says that August Spies, Albert r.
Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel
must suffer the penalty Of death
FULL returns Of the recent election in Da-
kota received on the 10th report that fifty
six of the sixty-seven counties in the Ter
ritory voted in favor of Prohibition. The
Northern half against division, while the
Southern part gave large majority for it
The skeletons of . man and woman were
on the 10th found on q farm near Wabash,
Ind Nobody knew any thing of the mys-
terry surrounding their presence.
The plurality for Governor Foraker at the
| recent election in Ohio was on the 10th
given at $4,000. The Legislature stands:
Senate-Republicans, "a; Democrats, 10,
and doubtful The House-Republicans
81: Democrats, 43, and doubtful
AT Peru. Ind, on the 10th. William Green
| was found guilty Of numbering Enos Brum-
baugh The sentence was imprisonment
for life He was brother OF Amer Green,
- ASACu AOSCAeiy AoA hAAlAS LuCAd luAUUlbk
Ar the county Jail in Chicago on the
morning of the 10th the officials were
startled by loud report that proceeded
| from the cell of the Anarchist, Louis Lingg
| and upon investigation 1t was discovered
| that the desperate man had mutilated his
face horribly by exploding Illuminating
| cap In his mouth He survived his injuries
| about six hours, death ensuing about three
O'clock I'm the afternoon
A GIN-HoUsE on an Arkansas cotton plan
tation was destroyed by fire on the 10th,
! four men perishing IN the flames
The building occupied by the Detroit
Evening ,ers was destroyed by fire on the
| night of the 10Th
GOVERNOR LARRABEE's plurality in Iowa at
the recent election was on the 10th placed
at about 16, 900 and his majority at 5000
The Republican majority in the Legislature
will be 80, with one seat In doubt
The forest fires that had been raging fol-
some time in the southern portion of nli.
nois and in Southern Indiana were on the
10th partially extinguisbed by rain
WILLIAM NJ LOCKE, q retired banker who
had lost most of his wealth by unfortunate
| speculation, committed suicide on the lOtt
by shooting ut Des Motnes, Ia
The seventh annual session of the Ma.
tional Farmers Congress commenced in
Chicago on the 10th. The president
Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia, deliv.
| cred an address